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The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
I think the main issue I'll have with this show is they seem to not merely be playing it straight, but playing it as some grand dynastic power struggle drama.
With a giant teleporting dog.
Yeah, no. There's going to have to be a whoooole lot of nodding & winking and wry humour in this thing if they expect to put those two things together.
"Your society's broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No, lets blame the people with no power and no money and those immigrants who don't even have the vote. Yea, it must be their fething fault." - Iain M Banks
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"The language of modern British politics is meant to sound benign. But words do not mean what they seem to mean. 'Reform' actually means 'cut' or 'end'. 'Flexibility' really means 'exploit'. 'Prudence' really means 'don't invest'. And 'efficient'? That means whatever you want it to mean, usually 'cut'. All really mean 'keep wages low for the masses, taxes low for the rich, profits high for the corporations, and accept the decline in public services and amenities this will cause'." - Robin McAlpine from Common Weal
“The crowd laughed at the footage” Oof. The Inhumans’ SDCC trailer isn’t getting much love
uh oh....
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
That's because Black Bolt is criminally miscast, Medusa's hair is awful and Maximus conveys neither threat nor insanity. The whole thing looks like F4ntastic.
The Inhumans are a classic cast of characters, and have figured heavily into current Marvel storylines as well.
Agents of Shield did their take on them, but it wasn't a particularly good one.
Sure, they became the MCU's version of "mutants" as the MCU 'can't' use that term because Marvel sold it to Fox back in the bad old days...
Hmm i liked it. The first seasons were good and the "hive" / inhumans story arc was ok. And after watching season 1-3 the first half of season 1 was better than my first impression.
Ghost rider was also nice, (Well after that movie everything would have been nice.) but the last season was kinda like they didn`t know what to do after the hive story arc.
Allthough it was not that bad.
Spoiler:
S.W.O.R.D.?
The last shot with Coulson may be a hint for the next storyline but as far as i know there is nothing concrete about season 5 yet.
As for Inhumans, lets hope it will be better than the trailers.
I love the acting of Iwan Rheon and i`m looking forward to see him do evil stuff.
Alpharius wrote: Which is a shame, as the Fantastic Four is a great property that's never really been done right in movie form.
And I bet Marvel/Disney keeps the Fantastic Four out of book form until that day that they get the rights back, however far away that date is!
Nah, they're just half-assing it until they get it back. FF is still a core IP, and they don't want it to die. They just don't want to print money for other studios.
Same as what they did with mutants / X-men, fewer X books to keep the fans, but not pushing really hard on it.
Hmm i liked it. The first seasons were good and the "hive" / inhumans story arc was ok. And after watching season 1-3 the first half of season 1 was better than my first impression.
Ghost rider was also nice, (Well after that movie everything would have been nice.) but the last season was kinda like they didn`t know what to do after the hive story arc.
Allthough it was not that bad.
I quite enjoy the show. Not as good as Agent Carter, but (IMO) better than Cage, Iron Fist and Jessica Jones. Plus, Chloe Bennet.
It does need more access to the greater Marvel movieverse though. Hopefully the closing scene to S4 is indicative of that (helping set up the Infinity War some more, like giving more info on the Infinity Stones or providing a tie-in between the Avengers and the Guardians).
I'm not sure about this new Inhumans show though. It just looks... shoddy. Will it tie in to any of the other Marvel properties at all?
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The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
I can only assume it's some form of tax write off gambit.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
"Your society's broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No, lets blame the people with no power and no money and those immigrants who don't even have the vote. Yea, it must be their fething fault." - Iain M Banks
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"The language of modern British politics is meant to sound benign. But words do not mean what they seem to mean. 'Reform' actually means 'cut' or 'end'. 'Flexibility' really means 'exploit'. 'Prudence' really means 'don't invest'. And 'efficient'? That means whatever you want it to mean, usually 'cut'. All really mean 'keep wages low for the masses, taxes low for the rich, profits high for the corporations, and accept the decline in public services and amenities this will cause'." - Robin McAlpine from Common Weal
I mean I'll still give it a go, since "it's garbage, just like Iron Fist" isn't much of a criticism to someone who actually really enjoyed Iron Fist, but the more specific criticisms don't bode well.
"Your society's broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No, lets blame the people with no power and no money and those immigrants who don't even have the vote. Yea, it must be their fething fault." - Iain M Banks
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"The language of modern British politics is meant to sound benign. But words do not mean what they seem to mean. 'Reform' actually means 'cut' or 'end'. 'Flexibility' really means 'exploit'. 'Prudence' really means 'don't invest'. And 'efficient'? That means whatever you want it to mean, usually 'cut'. All really mean 'keep wages low for the masses, taxes low for the rich, profits high for the corporations, and accept the decline in public services and amenities this will cause'." - Robin McAlpine from Common Weal
A few people I follow on twitter saw it at the imax last night. Their opinion was: "It's worse than Iron Fist."
Having just finished Iron Fist last week, I really, really disliked that. It was basically "Arrow... but every character is an a-hole."
I finished watching Defenders last night though and *that* was good, the best Marvel TV I'd say. The only downside with that was that it ended far too quickly.
I'm pretty ambivalent about Defenders. It's not bad, but its not as special as the shows that created it. I put it about on par with the first season of Arrow, which is better than most comic shows, just disappointing as I've come to expect better.
Didn't watch Iron Fist but Danny was pretty insufferable in Defenders so I can't say I feel like I missed anything.
I'm really loving to this dumpster fire of a train wreck here fitting justice to some extent.
Did not know that the movies and the comics division are run now separately Considering how Marvel Comics is run these days I'm happy it is separate. The Comics these days are trash and it's all incompetent, sales going down the drain in a time when sales should be going through the roof.
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